MUMBAI: The Covid-19 pandemic made Adrian D'Souza, the former India hockey goalkeeper, realise what he had been missing for a few years - getting back to the sport he loved. And so he began making videos on Insta Live and Facebook analysing the nuances of goalkeeping.
"From there to have come here, I feel blessed," he said.
By here, he means with the senior national women's team as its goalkeeping coach. India's victorious Women's Asian Champions Trophy (ACT) campaign in Rajgir in November was D'Souza's first tournament in that role. And the 2004 Athens Olympian couldn't have been happier with the start in an event where India conceded just two goals across seven matches.
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